Lake Mead National Recreation Area Museum Management Plan
2005. Lake Mead National Recreation Area Museum Management Plan. Lake Mead National Recreation Area Museum Management Planning Team
The Lake Mead National Recreation Area Museum Management Plan outlines a series of issues concerning the development, management, and use of the park archives, library, and museum collections, and recommends corresponding actions to address these issues. The park has never had a dedicated, journeyman-level Archivist, Librarian, or Museum Curator on staff. The park collections (heretoafter including park archives, library, and museum collections) remain in a developmental phase despite the age and maturity of the park. These park-specific resources lack status and definition, and are thus not efficiently contributing to park operations. This could be corrected by well-worked role and function statements, development of internal protocols for collections development, Scope of Collection Statements covering each collections type, and active management by journeyman level professional staff. All of the park collections need to be centralized under a single position for efficient management. The locations of park property in other private, state, and federal institutions need to be identified, and park resources need to be inventoried and documented through approved NPS catalog systems. This Museum Management Plan (MMP) offers recommendations for actions designed to take the park collections through a developmental phase that will provide for the basic documentation, preservation, and management of these park specific resources.
- Type
- Published Report
- Date of Issue
- 2005-04
- Publisher
- Lake Mead National Recreation Area Museum Management Planning Team
- Units
- HIST , LAKE
- Keywords
- Development, ehistory, Historic, Information, Management, Philosophy, Preservation